Burnishing-machine.



No. 760,529.- PATENTED MAY '24, 1904.

VP. DUPLESSIS. BURNISHING MACHINE.

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APPLICATION FILED DBO. 26.1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 24, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL DUPLESSIS, OF MARLBORQ, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE S H. HOWESHOE COMPANY, OF MARLBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BURNISHlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming of Letters Patent No. 760,529, dated May 24, 1904.

Application filed December 26,1903. Serial No. 186,551. (No model.)

To 0. whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL DUPLEssIs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Marlboro, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inBurnishing-Machines,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for burnishing the edges of the heelsof boots and shoes, the object of the invention being to supply astrong, simple, and durable machine which will burnish the edge of theheels of boots and shoes and will also automatically supply wax to arotary burnishing-tool whenever the heel of the shoe is brought to bearby the operator against said rotary tool.

The invention consists, in a machine of the character described, of arotary burnishingtool, an inclined guideway formed upon the frame ofsaid machine, and a wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway bygravity toward said tool.

The invention again consists in the combination of elements hereinbeforeset forth combined with a shoe-support arranged to engage saidwax-holder and move it toward and away from said rotary tool.

The invention further consists in the combination and arrangement ofparts 'set forth in the following specification and particularly pointedout in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a planviewof my improvedburnishing-machine, a shoe being represented in dotted lines inconnection therewith in the proper. position for the burnishing of theheel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved burnishingmachine asviewed from the left of Fig. 1 broken to save space. Fig.3 is anenlarged detail section, partly in elevation, taken on line 3 3 of Fig.2, illustrating the construction of the edge-guide and bottom-gage. Fig.4 is an enlarged section, partly in elevation, taken on line 4 4 ofFig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged section, partly in elevation, takenon line5 5 of Fig. 2 looking toward the left in said figure. Fig. 6 is a detailsection taken on line 66 of Fig. 5.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of thedrawings.

In the drawings, 8 is a base, and 9 a column upon which the frame 10 ofmy improved burnishing-machine is supported. The main driving-shaft 11has a pulley 12 fast thereto and connected by a belt 13 to a pulley 14,fast to the rotary tool-shaft 15, said rotary tool-shaft journaled torotate in bearings 16 16 in the frame 10. A pulley 17, fast to the shaft15, is connected by a belt 18 to a pulley 19, fast to the auxiliaryshaft 20, also journaled to rotate in bearings in the frame 10. Theshaft 20 has a bead-wheel 21 and a polishing-wheel 22 fast thereto.

The main driving-shaft 11 has a hand-wheel 23 fast thereto forconvenience in fotating the same by hand and a cambric-wheel 2 1 used inpolishing the edge of the wheel, as iswell known to those skilled inthis art.

- Upon the outer end of the shaft 15, at the left-hand endthereof, Fig.1, is fastened a rotary heel-burnishing tool 25 of any desirableconstruction. It is customary in burnishing the heels of boots and shoesfor the operator to constantly apply wax to the periphery of arotaryheel-burnishing tool by pressing a lump of wax against said tool.To do this, he is obliged to take one hand away from the shoe the edgeof the heel of which he is burnishing. Inmy improved .machine a lump ofwax 26 is clamped in a wax-holder 27 consisting of a slide 28, providedwith two vertical flanges 29 and 30. The flange 29 is integral with theslide 28 and the flange 3O adjustable toward and away from said flange29 for the purpose of holding pieces of wax of diflereut sizes firmlyclamped therebetween. The flange 30 is adjustably fastened to the slide28 by screws 31, each of which projects through a slot 31, formed in thehorizontal portion of the flange 30, said screws having screw-threadedengagement with the slide 28. A clamp-screw 32 serves todraw the flange30 toward the fixed flange 29, and when the screws 31 are loosened andafter having adjusted the flange 30 to the desired position said flangeis fastened in position by tightening the screws 31,

and thus the wax 26 is held firmlybetween said flanges 29 and 30.

The slide 28 is constructed to slide in ways 33 33, formed upon abracket 34, fast to the frame 10. Said ways are inclined downwardlytoward the rotary tool 25, so that the natural tendency of the holder27, together with the wax 26, fast thereto, is to slide downwardlytoward the burnishing-tool 25. An arm 35 is fast to the under side ofthe slide 28 and is curved downwardly to engage an arm 36 integral witha shoe-support 37, pivoted at 38 to a bracket 39, fast to the column 9and serving as a support for the outer'end of the bracket 34, to whichit is rigidly fastened. The arm 36 is provided with a counterweight 40.The shoe-support 37 terminates at its upper end in an edge-guide 41 andhas a bottom-gage 42, adjustably fastened thereto by a set-screw 43.

' The rotary burnishing-tool 25 is heated by any desirablemethod,'preferably by a block of wood 44, fast to a sheet-metal arm 45,which in turn is fastened to the bracket 34, Fig. 1.

The general operation of the machine hercinbefore specifically describedis as follows: The heel 46 of a shoe is placed with the edge thereofresting upon the edge-guide 41 and the bottom resting against thebottom-gage 42, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The operator now presses theshoe toward and against the periphery of the rotary tool 25'and at thesame time presses downwardly upon the shoe-support 37, rocking saidshoe-support slightly upon its pivot 38, raising the'arm 36 andcounterweight 40, and thus releasing the arm 35 and, slide 28, so thatthe wax-holder 27 slides downtheways 33 until the wax- 26 pressesagainst the periphery of the rotary tool 25, which in its rotationremoves suflicient wax to apply'the same to the heel 46 as said heel isrocked backward and forward by the operator in a manner well known" tothose skilled in this art. When the operator removes the shoe from thesupport 37, the counterweight 4O depresses the arm 36 until the outerend of said arm engages'the curved inner edge of the arm 35 and drawssaid arm toward the left,

Fig. 2. withdrawing the waxholder 27 and removing the wax from contactwith the rotary tool 25. It will thus be seen that as the operatorpushes the heel of the shoe against the rotarytool and pushes downwardlyupon the work-support wax will be automatically supplied to theperiphery of said burnishingtool. hen the wax is removed from contactwith the tool, as hereinbefore described, a setscrew 47, fast to theshoe-support 37, Fig. 2, contacts with the under side of the bracket 39and forms a stop to limit the extent to which the shoe-support may berocked upon its pivot by the action of the counterweight 40.

The shoe support 37 is supplied with an edge-guide 41 and with abottom-gage 42, as hereinbefore described,'the bottom-gage 42 beingadjustable toward the right and left, Fig. 3, to regulate the positionof the heel laterally with relation to the burnishing-tool.

Having thus described my invention, what I'claim, and desire by LettersPatent to secure,

gage said wax-holder and move the same with relation to said tool.

4. A burnishing-machine comprisingin its construction a rotaryburnishing-tool, ways fast to the frame of said machine, awax-holderconstructed to slide in said ways, and a shoe support constructed toengage said wax-holder and move the same with relation to said tool.

5. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotaryburnishing-tool, an inclined guideway, a wax-holder constructed to slidein said guideway toward said tool by gravity, and a shoe-supportconstructed to engage said wax-holder and move the same away from saidburnishing-tool.

6. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotaryburnishing-tool, an inclined guideway fast to the frame of said machine,a wax-holder constructed to slide toward said tool by gravity in saidguideway, and a pivotally-supported shoe-support constructed to engagesaid waxholder and move the sam away from said burnishing-tool.

7 A burnishing-machine comprising in its constructiona rotaryburnishing-tool, an inclined guideway formed upon'the frame of saidmachine, a wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway toward saidtool by gravity, and a shoe-support constructed to engage saidwax-holder and move the same away from said burnishing-tool, saidshoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and a bottom-gage fastthereto.

8. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotaryburnishing-tool, an inclined guideway formed upon the frame of saidmachine, a Wax-holder constructed to slide in said guideway toward saidtool by gravity, and a shoe-support constructed to engage saidwax-holder and move the same away from said burnishing-tool, saidshoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and a bottomgage adjustablyfastened thereto and adapted to bear against the bottom of the heel of ashoe supported upon said edge-guide.

9. A burnishing-machine comprising in its construction a rotaryburnishing-tool and a shoe-support constructed with an edge-guide and abottom-gage ad justably fastened thereto and adapted to bear against thebottom of the heel of a shoe supported upon said edge-guide.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto-set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

PAUL DUPLESSIS. Witnesses:

D H. FLETCHER, E. IRVING SAWYER.

